Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-04-10
CONCERNING BICOTRY.
IChr1kfinn Tnion l


If no bigot ia ever stoned till be who
IS without sin casts the first stone. there
will be no execution. Even iu the sunny
sir Of liberal America bigotFy ia the
eommonest of vices, and an open mind
and universal sympathy are the rarest
of virtues. The charity that believetk
all things, hopetA all things, euduFetb
all things, and thinketh no evil ia rare
plant. The tolerance of indifference is
common enough; but that is a sham
tolerance, FOOLS gold, no current coin
in the kingdom of love. Your cyuic.
who belisves in no one and nothing,
who is 'olerqnt If all error because he
is indffer Mt to all truth, is the sorriest
ard most useless imitation OF a mao
which a sham society ever fashions. No
man can be truly tolerant ubless there
be something to tolerate; unless he is
very much in earnest, and his charity
for his neigbbor survives his intellectual
condemnation of bis nsiRhhor's error.
To tolerate is TO Observation-Disclosures
Barring the eynic, almost every man
has marrow streak ia him. Find bis
intensity of CONVICTION, sRd it is
chance if you do not also find some in
tolerance for the man who does not
share his conviction.
The PFohibtionist SCOTS at the parti-
ssuship OF his parts friends but thinks
the High License u an is an undeyeloped
iuebEiats; the Republican assures you
that the Prohibitionist has put on a
temperance livery to save the Demo-
cratic party in. The clergyman breaches
glowing sermon ON the Rarity of
Christian Charity" in his congregation,
bat cannot join hands in saving souls
With bis clerical neiRhbor across the
way whose creed has one article too
much or too little. 0 The secular journal
ist boxes the clergym ears for his
intolerance; you turn the page. and ind
him exercising all his ingenuity TO dis
cover some malign mstive for the ap.
parently excellent act or vote of his DO
litiesl opponent; il is difficult to tell
which he dispises most, psrtisanship in
religion or Independence in politics
The doctor throws down his newspaper
With q shrug and pshaw at the narrow
ness Of party editors; ba; he will not
join cOunsels with an irregular %
save human life. Stand by the bed
side with man Of another school Not
be, indeed. The man of affairs cen
demns them all 49, minister, journalist,
doetor-for their bigotry and in the
same breath expresses his wonder that
the American people do not find a way
20 stop the talk of Henry George and
Father MeGlyuu. aud his wish that the
workingmen would pull Powderly oat Of
bis gorgeous offices in Philadelphia aud
give him q dose Of "scabn treatment
Derend upon it, there is little Torqae
msds blood in ell Of rs. II yoa want 10
ma the nearest bigos, look IN the glass
for him. Evsn the ladies are not free
from Intolerance; witness the gossip in
any tea party or church sewing society.
Bat this ia q theme We dare not pursue
fnrthsr, lest all subscribers to she Chris. |
tian Union, male and female, be set |
agaigst as by one fatal editorial; lest |
every one who hss trace Of bieofry 10 |
his composition should think Us per
soual and cry, "Stop my paper -
xhereupon 10 would come 90 a sudden |
ard inRlorious end.
There are tive remedies for n;olsr-
anee. Oae, the q m conviction, forut d
Into habit Of min that no iRteIl G.
.nal opinion Is ever sin; aud, the G.
lore, no IN eiiectuAl erFor is ever a
'easou for tie refusal If personal an0
friendly sympathy. Errors grow out e
ms; sins Rr0w out Of errors; bat errors
IRE never SINS Mistakes are misft r
znes. The m re man is IN error. he
aors reason for nv sympathy and fe.-
7Vshap, The otter remedy Is tue /
irong co8vieiion that there = no truth |
, held IS 20 be perfectly ADD wholly /
rue, and no error - held as 20 be pcF-
eealy aud wholly false. M doubt, ms
iRh license friend. that your prohib- |
ioEisi neigebor Is mistaken in his |
Methods; bat yoa would never have
otEea high license bill IL there had
ever been any Prohibition agitation. i
lie ~ yuur ally, after all, IN spite Of | ,
eth YOU and OF himself. Nv komsn ,
aitolte freed cannot be right IN h. / !
octrtne O. tie reel presence; af course
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